San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1887-06-09
PERSONAL.


j. H. Storey has returned homo.
w. d. Ward has returned TO this place.
Mr.. Mcclellan of the Candy Factory, is "
Paris, Texas.
Rev. Geo. b. Killough was at homo the
| first of tho week.
Judge Wood has been absent some ten
days in Eastern Texas.
Mr.. K9big, editor of the New Braunfels
Zeitung, was in town on Tuesday.
G. w. Briggs has returned from q So
journ of some months in the Northern cities.
]. B. Mitchell, well-known citizen of
Corpus Christi, was in town day or two
last week.
Miss Jennie Fry has returned from a
years study In Sam Houston Normal Instr
tute, Huntsville.
Mr.. Mum, of Austin, a brother Of Mrs.
B. W. Smith, was in town several days the
present week.
Rev. ]. s. Gillett, now of Luling, called
on Tuesday and renewed his subscription
to the FREE Press.
l.. B. Killian is repainting and renovat-
ing his grocery store room 80 as to greatly
improve its appearance and comfort.
Mr.. Wolf, late from Arkansas, and now
doing business here, prefers Texas, and
will probably remain permanently at this
place.
Mr.. Jackson of Austin, was in town on
Yesterday soliciting subscriptions for that
excellent paper, the Austin Prohibitionist.
We hope he had good success.
Messrs. Storey q Rogers having taken
the contract to supply beef for the con-
tractors ON the new railroad, Mr.. Storey
and family have found 1t expedient to re-
move to Lockhart.
Mai. Mcclellan we learn has an artesian
well on his ranch in tho mountains not very
far from this place. If this is so 1t ia q most
interesting fact, and we hope he or some
one else will write it up for our columns.
Our old friend Pres. Connally called on us
on to-day. We had lost sight of him for
some time. He informs us he intends
WORKING up u county fair on Blanco this foil.
We should like to see one got up and made
o success.
Rev. Mr.. Howerton's sermon at the
Presbyterian church on Sunday was listened
by a good audience, and was really merito-
rious, We think he will make an acoepta-
BILE minister to the congregation which wor-
ships there.
Rev. A. H. Sutherland contradicts q
portion of the report of the Express regard
ing the mobocratic proceedings at San An
tonic on Tuesday night. He says he spoke
n full half hour in rebuke of alderman Lock-
wood before the egging began.
We notice that the Dallas Waterman
copies from the FREE PRESS the fine poem
on water" by James A. Beveiidge. BY
the way we should have stated that the
copy was furnished US by Hon. j. V.
Hutchins, who committed it to memory
some II years ago and wrote it down from
recollection. There was typographical
error in the last stnnza--it should have been
''simmering still" instead of SHINING. MIR.
Hutchins says the author was o. writer OF
rnre talent. Our friend Sam Dixon some
how missed him in his Poets and Poetry OF
Texas.
DIR. j. J. Jones writes us from Green
brier Faulkner county, Ark, OF bis safe
return. He soys II shall likely spend
the balance of my sojourn on my old farm
place, which located 80 years ago this fall.
My land is all here except 40 acres at Con
way City here it will pay me best, and my
children, to oversee the removing of these
giant oaks and gums After looking at SO
much prairie and dwarf timber In Texas my
forest looks grand, many oak trees over
feet In diameter and As to 30 feet to the
first limb" He adds that ho saw marked
improvements in s. w. Arkansas made in
the last two years.
We we're surprised on Sunday night by
most agreeable call from our old ex-lndiana,
ex-rexas friend and correspondent MIR. IL.
p. Lantz. of Los Angeles, CAL, gentleman
of means and business prestige. He has
been referred to before in these columns as
having come to Dallas just before We came
to San Marcos. He did well there down to
1884, when, going to his present location,
he has done still better. He had been to
Dallas to attend to some business, and Will
close out his interests in Texas as soon rs
possible. He saw L. w. Mitchell short
time before he left home and reports favor
ably of his condition and prospects. Mr.
Lantz is one of the most leYel-headed mon
we ever have known, and his favorable
opinion of Southern California weighs with
us more thfn many other accounts we have
had of that region. Having known him
from boy, and been in "haiiing distance"
$50 to speak, Of him ever since, we need not
say that his presence was to us
"Welcome as the hand
-, forofor1 land "